Waldeyer-Hartz [Waldeyer], Wilhelm von

1856 studies of natural sciences at the University of Göttingen; change to medicine and studies at Göttingen (under Henle), Greifswald and Berlin; 1861 qualification at Berlin under Karl Reichert with a doctoral dissertation on the structure and function of the clavicle; assistant in the department of physiology at the University of Königsberg; acquaintance with Leopold Goltz; 1864 lecturer in physiology and histology at the University of Breslau and responsible for a service department in pathology; 1865 associate professor of pathology and director of a department of postmortem investigations; 1868 chair of pathology at the University of Breslau; 1872 chair of anatomy at the University of Strasbourg; 1883 chair of anatomy at Berlin in succession to Reichert; for over thirty-three years director of the anatomy department at Berlin; 1916 resignation from his post at university.